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Has anyone else noticed that a pack of bacon used to be a pound and is now 12 ounces? My girl likes to cook and is frustrated that her recipes are thrown off. Canned goods like tomato sauce have been quietly reduced in ounces. I walked out of the store the other day with three bags. There was no alcohol or meat. It was basically produce that amounted to a good salad and a nice bottled water. It came to fifty bucks! Now there are talking about the price of meat going up. Something has to give here.

I've noticed that too. The price over everything is through the roof. I make breakfast and pack lunches for my grandkids & son in law most weekdays. I host family dinners no less than twice a week. Although my daughter and her husband have good jobs, between the soaring cost of food and the private tuition they picked up when public schools got loony with inappropriate teaching, they would be having to cut back a good bit if I didn't help up. This is on a nurse and engineer's paychecks. The economy is harming the every day person, especially young families. It is impossible to imagine that anyone would vote for Biden under these circumstances.

It is all President Biden's fault! Right? WRONG!!

I remember when Apollo 11 took off. Then nothing. It did not land for days.
In 1992, I concluded that if employees ever got the upper hand over employers it would not be pretty.

Guess what? It is not pretty.

The cause of the current economic situation is years if not decades in the making.

Americans are not willing to look at the data which define current economic status.
They just want to blame the guy currently at the helm.

The guy at the helm of the RMS Titanic was not responsible for its sinking.
The major mistakes that were the cause the ships demise were made before the keel was laid.

The bacon problem is the new version of Robber Barons hoping you would not notice.
That is, they are hoping "you" are too stupid to notice.

In this case, YOU proved them wrong! You noticed.

STOP COMPLAINING, DO SOMETHING!!

I do not like big government. However, BIG BUSINESS does not like big government more than I do.

Boeing thought no one would notice they were selling defective aircraft. (and still are... selling defective aircraft)
When the defective aircraft started crashing. We noticed.

For the record, I prefer conservative governments. I do not prefer the Make Don Trump Rich Again movement.

C123

Hi Mary,
Let me try to cover your concerns with 3 concise answers:
1. Changing package sizes (the 12 ounce package of 1 pound bacon has been around for the 7 decades of my life; FWIW during WWII, from time to time, - we couldn't get 'any ounces, now matter how much we were willing to pay - - in THAT perspective, things today are far better;
2. As for tomato sauce, a few years ago, my wife and I were fans of Wegman's Puttanesca bottled sauce, while the 16 ounce size has stayed the same today the price has risen to $2.39 from the $1.99 of a couple years ago - - SO we went on a mission to find our NEW-BEST sauce; after viewing a half dozen "sauce-tournaments", on TV, we've now arrived AT Hunt's Tomato Sauce, that is as GOOD as we've ever tasted for $2.49 for a 32 ounce can, and that INCLUDES perhaps a dozen specialty products found everywhere, e.g. Rao's super sauce, now approaching $10/26 ounce bottle, and a couple of New York "super-best's" at even higher prices - - SO there can be 'methods to madness'!

3. Finally, as to your "nice bottled water": Having grown-up in The Bronx, NYC I have always been partial to NYC's modestly treated mountain-spring originated water; my NJ Town's water treatment is reasonably akin to NYC's, but the shoppers with shopping carts full of bottle water, are evident everywhere! I AM CONVINCED people have lost their minds in stepping participiating in the United States' recent two decades bottled-water craze. To add some perspective, we were recently in Thailand, where bottle water is MOST CERTAINLY NEEDED, and is sold in bottles with SEEMINGLY unremovable/untamperable caps - - LO AND BEHOLD, around too many street corners to recall, there were the "garden-hose-filler" crowds . . .

It is BIG GOVERNMENT but we could require:

Unit Pricing labels and/or Standardized Packaging

That is a pound of package to look like a pound of bacon. Not 12 oz of bacon to look like a pound of bacon.

Unit Pricing $ per Oz etc.

Imaging metric packaging 500 gm 499,498,497,496..............

Only 3 countries do not use metric.

C123

Stop complaining and do something? LOL. I plan on that in November. Biden has been a train wreck. His poor decision making is a significant factor in the rise of gas prices. His administration is war happy, pro illegals over American citizens, over regulations and drove inflation up after having been handed a good economy. The locked down the economy with insane and senseless mandates, not caring who they hurt and gave PPL loans to multi millionaires. Biden has the lowest approval rating of any sitting president in recent history for a reason. The Democrats know the only they can win is through election interference and they are out in full stride with it, even having tried to prevent fellow Democrats like Dean Phillips and Kennedy Jr. off the ballots.

MissMary Posted:
Something has to give here.

Response:
Inflation was 1.4% when Biden took office. It reached 9.1% nearly a year and a half into his presidency.
Time to think about voting Trump back into the White House.

Here is a not so fun fact. In 1980 a Big Mac cost .50 cents and was twice the size. It is 8 bucks now. Converting the 1980's dollar to today's and that would be about $1.80 for a burger half the size.

Where I live, downsizing the package of bacon from a pound is new in grocery stores this last year. When the farmer's market has bacon, it is still sound by the pound. My girlfriend makes her own red sauces. It is the size of the tomato paste and plain tomato sauce that is throwing off the recipes. We'll survive it. The downsizing is frustrating. I am with you on the bottle watered. We have an under the sink reverse osmosis water filter. It is easy to put it in your own bottle instead of drinking out of plastic. It tastes better too.

Along the line of inflation and food, my girl and I have been talking about selling the condo and buying a house with enough yard to raise our own veggies and put up a greenhouse. We can take the hit the cost of moving to a more expensive place. But, the interest rates are a killer. We have a 3.5%. I have to wonder if they come back down, it will drive up the cost of homes. There will probably be a flood of new buyers making it more competitive.

I don't know what you're talking about. It is the private companies that supply the food that are shrinking the size of the packages.

I can't bring myself to vote for a Republican. We are too far apart on social issues. At this point, I won't be voting. My liberal and progressive friends are talking about Kennedy. I should read up on him.

MissMary posted:
I can't bring myself to vote for a Republican. We are too far apart on social issues.

Response:
It's unfortunate that social issues takes precedence over the well being of our country.
Everyone, including LGBT people, benefit from our nation being strong economically and militarily.
The LGBT community should worry about border security.
Of the unvetted millions Biden has allowed there is a high number of those who have no qualms about eliminating gays.
They are not as benign as Christians who feel wronged when forced to promote a cause they don't believe in.

The economy, crime increase, military strength, etc. affect everyone, including LGBT.
There are many who agree.
Consider this article:
Trump Pride: Gay Republicans on why they're backing the president
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-pride-gay-republicans-why-they-re-backing-president-n1243469

"It's unfortunate that social issues takes precedence over the well being of our country"


Nobody and I mean NOBODY with a brain in their head would vote for Biden with all the horror this animal has created....WORLDWIDE horror btw....

Unfortunately we have about 40% of the population in America that is so liberal and brainwashed that they don't care....Throw in the ILLEGALS voting along with the dead people voting and we have have a shit show on our hands in November....

These people also don't care about their neighbors, their kids or their grandkids....They don't care if millions of people die because of the policies of this administration....As long as GUYS can play against girls in sports then all is good for these lunatics....

Homeschooling is the best thing we ever did....

Fahrenheit451 Posted:
These people also don't care about their neighbors, their kids or their grandkids....They don't care if millions of people die because of the policies of this administration....As long as GUYS can play against girls in sports then all is good for these lunatics....

Response:
Agreed

PS
It's more fun responding to your posts when we disagree.
I enjoy pointing out your fallacies.

I sent a PhD educated Republican supporting friend a link to the story that the IRS is questioning Mr Trump's extremely creative accounting methods with respect to a Chicago property.
I also mention that it is likely Mr Trump will owe taxes on the monies taken from the PAC to cover his legal expenses rather than campaign expenses.
In addition, there is also his contraventions of the Emoluments Clauses to the US Constitution in several respects.

His response was "I hope the fucker rots in prison. "

Do you still want a criminal psychopath as POTUS?

C123 definitely not Chuck

PS I do not like Mr Biden either. However,many of the accusations against him are NOT supported by facts. OK any REAL facts.

I haven't been on the forum for a few days and just now saw this. This is something that I've weighed out over the last year. It comes down to two issues that keep me from stepping over the line and voting Republican. Gay marriage is one of them. Trump has said he'd continue to honor it. But, there are GOP members that are with the evangelicals. Then, there is the issue of abortion. While I could never imagine having one, in the unlikely event I would get pregnant, I feel for the young women who don't have financial resources or family support. Speaking of having children, there is the issue of the ability for gay couples to adopt. Right now, it is quite possible. But, as we've seen with Roe v Wade, anything can get over turned. This is the reason for my hesitation. I'm not at the point that I could do it. The best I can do is not show up to vote at all.